Analysis of Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
See here an easy feast that knows no wound,
That under hunger's teeth will needs be sound;
A subtle harvest of unbounded bread,
What would ye more? Here food itself is fed.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1111011111 110111111 0101010101 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 194 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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